Treacherous Waters transports readers to remote polar waters, lee shores, angry surf, and the hearts of storms. These fifteen accounts of real events on the ocean are as riveting, engrossing, and vivid as any fiction. Here is triumph, disaster and rescue in small sailboats as captured by Rob Mundle (Fatal Storm), Marlin Bree (Wake of the Green Storm), Jim Carrier (The Ship and the Storm), Reanne Hemingway-Douglass (Cape Horne: One Man's Dream, One Woman's Nightmare), Gordon Chaplin (Dark Wind: A Survivor's Tale of Love and Loss), Tami Oldham Ashcroft (Red Sky in Mourning), Gerald F. Spiess (Alone Against the Atlantic), Bill Tilman (Mischief Goes South), and others. The selections are grouped in five parts: Storms; Cape Horn; Lee Shores; Polar Waters; Man Overboard; and Abandon Ship. The series editor, Tom Lochhaas, has chosen each piece first for its narrative qualities and secondly for its freshness. He has cast his net widely to discover new treasures in the vast literature of the sea. Even an avid fan of sea stories will find much that is new and exciting.
The feel of the book is immediate and modern, as most selections relate events that took place from the 1960s to the present. The pieces function as free-standing narratives that Lochhaas places in context with insightful introductions. This handsomely packaged treasury makes an ideal companion whether swinging at anchor or under sail in an armchair.
Author Biography
Thomas Lochhaas is ideally qualified to serve as series editor for Epics of the Sea. He has worked in publishing for 15 years, both as an acquisitions editor (for C.V. Mosby Company) and as a freelance writer and developmental editor for major publishers such as Addison-Wesley, Jones & Bartlett, Simon & Schuster, and Little, Brown. He earned an M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and was a Ph.D. candidate (all but dissertation) in modern literature at Washington University, St. Louis. He has published short fiction, critical essays, and a number of articles on boating topics appearing in magazines such as SAIL, Maine Boats and Harbors, and Good Old Boat. He has taught writing at the college level as a lecturer at UCLA and the University of Arizona, Tucson. He is an avid reader of the literature of the sea. An experienced sailor, he is currently preparing his boat for a trans-Atlantic cruise.
HOMETOWN: Newburyport, MA
